Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iOS 8 HealthKit Enabled Apps Megathread

Status
The first post of this thread is a WikiPost and can be edited by anyone with the appropiate permissions. Your edits will be public.
Yeah, thats a massive screwup on their side.
I'd be even more pi**ed if I had lost months of data because of them.
(Which raises the question about data-integrity in HealthKit anyway..)
 
mac2thefuture said:
Thanks - it appears that the 3rd party apps are better than the much Apple hyped Health App!!
Click to expand...

Health is not meant to replace third party apps. It's meant to serve a a clearinghouse to exchange data between apps and provide a central dashboard.
 
BaldiMac said:
Health is not meant to replace third party apps. It's meant to serve a a clearinghouse to exchange data between apps and provide a central dashboard.
Click to expand...

It would be great if Apple's Health would take data from third party apps and show it in a nice dashboard. Unfortunately it does not do that.
 
PN4 said:
It would be great if Apple's Health would take data from third party apps and show it in a nice dashboard. Unfortunately it does not do that.
Click to expand...

If it's HealthKit compatible it does. Just took my blood pressure and it populated into Healthkit.
 
AngusW said:
If it's HealthKit compatible it does. Just took my blood pressure and it populated into Healthkit.
Click to expand...

Wait a few hours... I've been using MyFitnessPal since the update. The data goes in, it comes out, it combines days. Health does not work as it should.

----------
AHDuke99 said:
It's not making sense on the health kit app either. It just adds all the calories up instead of showing what I eat each day.
Click to expand...

Same here.

----------
MacFinnley said:
MyFitnessPal is not working right. It deletes my data from yesterday. :(
Click to expand...

Same for me, except MyFiitnessPal keeps my data, but Apple's Health is not keeping it in the correct day.
 
Julien said:
Yes and I hope you were not offended by my post. If so I do apologize and put emphases on "Funny to me" part in my post. Poor wording on my part and should have said (and meant) "Curious to me". I also went back and edited my post.

----------

Garmin Connect was updated and says HealthKit compatibility. 2 people on the Garmin forums claim it works but everyone else (including myself) can't get it to work.
Click to expand...
I've gotten it to work but it's not working properly. Every time it syncs it doubles the info. It syncs on the hour twice #
 
PN4 said:
Same for me, except MyFiitnessPal keeps my data, but Apple's Health is not keeping it in the correct day.
Click to expand...

Yeah, previous days get deleted. Although for now it seems to stick if you remove Read persmissions for MFP.
 
PN4 said:
Wait a few hours... I've been using MyFitnessPal since the update. The data goes in, it comes out, it combines days. Health does not work as it should.
Click to expand...


I said it's working not all the apps are yet but that's also because they're still coding and making sure everything works right as long as the Apps are updated. You can't expect them all to be working right as soon as something comes out.
 
AngusW said:
I said it's working not all the apps are yet but that's also because they're still coding and making sure everything works right as long as the Apps are updated. You can't expect them all to be working right as soon as something comes out.
Click to expand...

I expected it to work. I'm not a beta tester. I want to open the box and use the product as they said I could when they sold it to me. This issue seems to be a Health issue and not the 3rd party apps issue. If it was, why would apple approve the app?
 
AngusW said:
I said it's working not all the apps are yet but that's also because they're still coding and making sure everything works right as long as the Apps are updated. You can't expect them all to be working right as soon as something comes out.
Click to expand...

No it should've been working properly at release or they should not have released it yet. This isn't a beta.
 
Can anyone recommend an app that I can record all my blood chemistry in? Cholesterol, thyroid, vitamin levels, glucose, protein, calcium.. The whole shebang. Should love to have this data to compare over time.
 
CEmajr said:
No it should've been working properly at release or they should not have released it yet. This isn't a beta.
Click to expand...

Support is also up to the Developers to make sure that the apps the produce are ready to go. Some are starting to roll out now others are taking a little longer.
 
AngusW said:
Support is also up to the Developers to make sure that the apps the produce are ready to go. Some are starting to roll out now others are taking a little longer.
Click to expand...

I don't have any problem with Apps taking awhile to be released.

The problem is that Health itself is not working. I didn't expect third party apps to all be available on the first day but I expected Health to function properly. Even manually added data (unrelated to 3rd party apps) put directly into health has acted inconsistently. Sometimes not showing on charts, disappearing and requiring hard resets of the device to show back up, and requiring an update (8.0.1/8.0.2) which initially made things worse. Health is the problem, it was not ready for primetime.

Throw in the 3rd party apps, which Apple approved, and Health is even more screwed up. Now data is doubling, disappearing, and acting inconsistently.

Imagine if it was a more serious App like Apple Pay which gave these same issues. :eek:
 
Panera Bread

For what it's worth, the Panera app has been updated to support Health/Healthkit - I updated the wiki post. Apparently, you can add the nutrition information from an item in the menu section into several of the "nutrition" elements of Health, though I haven't tried it.
image.jpg
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back